Doctor Dolittle and the Green Canary - Couverture rigide

Lofting, Hugh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224604473 ISBN 13 : 9780224604475

Editeur : Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1966

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The charming story of Pippinella, the green canary, as told by Pip herself to the Doctor. Although much of the material had been printed originally in 1924 for the Herald Tribune Syndicate, Lofting planned to complete the story in book form but never finished before he died. Lofting’s wife’s sister, Olga Michael, completed the book and it was published posthumously in 1950. Everything except the first and last chapter are by Lofting. Much of the material in this book is repeated from the earlier novel Doctor Dolittle’s Caravan and tells the story of the Doctor’s friend Pippinella the Green Canary, in slightly greater depth. Hugh John Lofting was a trained as a civil engineer and author who created the character of Doctor Dolittle; one of the classics of children’s literature. Hugh Lofting’s doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh who could speak to animals first saw light in the author’s illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. Eight more books followed, and after Lofting’s death two more volumes, composed of short unpublished pieces, appeared. The series has been adapted for film and television many times, for stage twice, and for radio

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0224604473
• ISBN 13: 9780224604475
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288